About the Authors

Farda Barandeh

Contributed equally to this work with: Farda Barandeh, Phuong-Lan Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Phuong-Lan Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Farda Barandeh, Phuong-Lan Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Rajiv Kumar

Affiliation Institute of Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Gary J. Iacobucci

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Michelle L. Kuznicki

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Andrew Kosterman

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Earl J. Bergey

Affiliation Institute of Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Paras N. Prasad

Affiliation Institute of Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Shermali Gunawardena

sg99@buffalo.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Institute of Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB PLN RK GJI MLK AK EJB PNP SG. Performed the experiments: FB PLN RK GJI MLK AK. Analyzed the data: FB PLN GJI AK SG. Wrote the paper: RK EJB SG.